[PATCH 01/24] arm: initial Xen support

Ian Campbell Ian.Campbell at citrix.com
Thu Aug 2 03:35:51 EDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 19:27 +0100, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 07/26/2012 10:33 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > - Basic hypervisor.h and interface.h definitions.
> > - Skelethon enlighten.c, set xen_start_info to an empty struct.
> > - Do not limit xen_initial_domain to PV guests.
> > 
> > The new code only compiles when CONFIG_XEN is set, that is going to be
> > added to arch/arm/Kconfig in a later patch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/Makefile                     |    1 +
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/hypervisor.h     |    6 +++
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h |   19 ++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/xen/interface.h  |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> These headers don't seem particularly ARM specific. Could they be moved
> to asm-generic or include/linux?

Or perhaps include/xen.

A bunch of it also looks like x86 specific stuff which has crept in.
e.g. PARAVIRT_LAZY_FOO and paravirt_get_lazy_mode() are arch/x86
specific and shouldn't be called from common code (and aren't, AFAICT).






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